It’s getting more difficult to keep quiet about occasional MAGA rants from members of my family. I’ve usually ignored such stupidities, or been too soft-spoken in my replies, but that ends now.
This is the rough draft of something I’ll be sending to all the Hollands. I’m not religious, but because these same people who love Donald Trump also say they love Jesus Christ, Christianity is mentioned. I want to smack ’em with that hypocrisy, and if saying it keeps some of them from coming to breakfast, well, the food will taste better without them.
I could use your help getting the words just right, so please suggest any improvements to make the article hit harder. Among other things, I’m not sure whether it could use a better slam-bang finish, or maybe the ending it has is right, for a MAGA Christian audience. What do you think?
I believe that the meaning of life is to get through it, and help others get through it. Along the way, have some fun, laugh as much as possible, fall in love if you’re lucky, and see the world if you can, but there is no higher calling than kindness, and helping others. If you can’t be kind, you’re making the world worse.
There are so many people who could use a kindness, instead of a kick. Disabled folks have it hard. Immigrants are at a disadvantage in everything. Trans people have difficulties I can only imagine, and certainly wouldn’t want to endure — and neither do they. The list of people who could use a kindness is endless.
For me, the most obvious example is the homeless, because I see those lost souls almost any time I step out of my house. That’s life in the big city, and clearly not something anyone would choose. When we see our fellow Americans barely surviving, holding a sign or huddled in a doorway, we could offer help, or do nothing, or we could offer ridicule and rebuke.
Personally, I choose to help. I’ve talked with down-and-outers, given them cash, given them food. Not always, not much, and certainly not enough, but I try to do what little can be done by one person. It’s better than doing nothing.
Doing nothing is what most people do. They walk or drive past, or change their routines so they’re never where the homeless might be. And I understand that response — doing nothing is easy, and easy to rationalize. There are so many people on the street who need help, that if you tried to help all of them, you’d never be home for dinner. We can’t help all of them, so most of us do nothing for any of them, and that sucks.
But it’s better than people who try to make things worse. I’ll never understand it, but many people insult the homeless, taunt them to “Get a job!”, ask police to arrest them, and demand politicians cut or end whatever programs might offer a lifeline. Many, many cruel people do such things, and I call them Republicans, because that’s what most of them call themselves. Some also call themselves Christians, but I won’t, and from everything I’ve ever been taught about Jesus and God, He wouldn’t call them that either.
9/21/2025
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